Business Studies

Organisational & Entrepreneurial Behaviour

The research group Organizational & Entrepreneurial Behavior investigates the behavior of individuals and groups who start, work in, or lead organizations, in order to inform organizational practice. By focusing on the behavior of (groups of) employees, entrepreneurs and leaders, the main levels of analysis are the micro and meso levels.

Topics that are of particular interest for this research group are well-being, the work-life interface, motivational constructs, interpersonal dynamics, job design, (organizational) decision-making, individual characteristics, and employment relations.

The ultimate goal of increasing our understanding of organizational and entrepreneurial behavior, is to make individuals and groups flourish – allowing the organizations they operate in to better achieve their goals and to have a positive influence on society. Here, we take into account different forms of (sustainable) value creation, informed by collaboration with the Corporate Governance & Strategy research group.

Our research group aspires to be a knowledge hub for Law & Behavior and (empirical) research methods within Leiden Law School. We are eager to integrate the legal and social scientific perspectives, in order to work on complex (societal) questions that require an interdisciplinary approach.

Publications

Cornax, M.M. (2023). It's been more than a year since BOOS: THIS IS THE VOICE. Where are we now?
Cornax, M.M., Erkens, M.Y.H.G., & Pluut H. (2023). Werken waar je wilt? Een kleine gids: belangenafweging vanuit sociaalwetenschappelijk perspectief. Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid, 15(1), 8-14.
Pluut, H. & Cornax, M.M. (2023). It takes two to tango: the pursuit of employee well-being through ‘good work’. Psihologia Resurselor Umane, 21(1), 2-10.
Smolka, K. M., Geradts, T. H., van der Zwan, P. W., & Rauch, A. (2023). Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education. Journal of Small Business Management, onlinefirst
Cornax M.M., Erkens M.Y.H.G. & Pluut H. (2023). Werken waar je wilt? Een kleine gids: belangenafweging vanuit sociaalwetenschappelijk perspectief. Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid, 15(1), 8-14.

Pluut, H en Fried, E Cornax, M (2022), A week in the life of a YAL member
Pluut, H., Curseu, P. L., & Fodor, O. C. (2022). Development and validation of a short measure of emotional, physical, and behavioral markers of eustress and distress (MEDS). Healthcare, 10(2): 339.
Hoogendoorn, B., Uhlaner, L., van der Zwan, P., & Stephan, U. (2022). Entrepreneurship, age, and social value creation: A constraint-based individual perspective. Journal of Small Business Management, onlinefirst
Broekema M.J.R., Strohmaier N., Adriaanse J.A.A. & Rest J.I. van der (2022), Are Business Valuators Biased?: A Psychological Perspective on the Causes of Valuation Disputes, Journal of Behavioral Finance 23(1): 23-42.
Rijsenbilt J.A., Lycklama à Nijeholt M.P., Strohmaier N. & Koster H. (2022), Corporate governance: gedrag en cultuur als determinant voor ketenverantwoordelijkheid: waarom wet- en regelgeving niet toereikend is, Onderneming en Financiering 30(3): 41-52.
Broekema M.J.R. & Strohmaier N. (5 april 2022), From Leiden tot Delaware: how empirical legal research on valuation biases was used in a US courtroom. Leiden Law Blog. [blog].

Van Duyvenvoorde A, Fonteyn L, Giest S, Pluut H en Samuels A (2021), Science is NOT like competitive sports
Pluut H, Wonders J (2021), Gezonde leefstijl: een gedeelde verantwoordelijkheid
Pluut, H., Ilies, R., Su, R., Weng, Q., & Liang. A. X. (2021). How social stressors at work influence marital behaviors at home: An interpersonal model of work-family spillover. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 27, 74-88.
Strohmaier, N. Adriaanse, J., Van den Bos, K., & Pluut, H. (2021). Similarity bias in credit decisions for entrepreneurs on the brink of bankruptcy. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51, 683-697.
Darouei, M., & Pluut, H. (2021). Work from home today for a better tomorrow! How working from home influences work-family conflict and employees’ start of the next workday. Stress & Health, 37, 986-999.
Strohmaier N., Pluut H., Bos K. van den, Adriaanse J.A.A. & Vriesendorp R.D. (2021), Hindsight bias and outcome bias in judging directors’ liability and the role of free will beliefs, Journal of Applied Social Psychology 51(3): 141-158.

Pluut, H., & Wonders, J. (2020). Not able to lead a healthy life when you need it the most: Dual role of lifestyle behaviors in the association of blurred work-life boundaries with well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:607294.
Pluut, H., & De Hauw, S. (2020). Building the support network of new parents at work and outside. In M. Karanika-Murray & C. Cooper (Eds.), Navigating the return-to-work experience for parents: Maintaining work-family well-being (pp. 22-33). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Zwan P.W. van der, Hessels J. & Burger M. (2020), Happy Free Willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being, Small Business Economics 55(2): 475-491.
Hessels J., Rietveld C.A. & Zwan P.W. van der (2020), The Relation Between Health and Earnings in Self-Employment, Frontiers in Psychology 11(801): 1-11.
Hessels J., Rietveld C.A., Thurik A.R. & Zwan P.W. van der (2020), The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees in Australia, Journal of Business Venturing Insights 13: e00148.

Pluut H, Van Putten M (2019), Young Academy Leiden supports Taverne pilot
Pluut, H., & Andres, M. (2019). The influence of work-family experiences during military deployment on organizational outcomes. In R. Moelker, M. Andres, & N. Rones (Eds.), The politics of military families (pp. 121-137). London, UK: Routledge.
Hessels S.J.A. & Zwan P.W. van der (2019), Old age self-employment and work-related stress. In: Backman M., Karlsson C. & Kekezi O. (red.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Aging. Research Handbooks in Business and Management series. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 283-298.
Zwan P.W. van der & Hessels J. (2019), Solo Self-employment and Wellbeing: An Overview of the Literature and an Empirical Illustration, International Review of Entrepreneurship 17(2): 169-188.
Hoogendoorn B., Zwan P.W. van der & Thurik R. (2019), Sustainable entrepreneurship: The role of perceived barriers and risk, Journal of Business Ethics 157(4): 1133-1154.

Pluut, H., Büttgen, M., & Ullrich, J. (2018). Spousal influence on employees’ career paths in dual ladder systems: A dyadic model. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 27, 777-792.
Curseu, P. L., & Pluut, H. (2018). A systematic investigation of absorptive capacity and external information search in groups: Implications for group cognition. Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 24, 411-434.
Darouei, M., & Pluut, H. (2018). The paradox of being on the glass cliff: Why do women accept risky leadership positions? Career Development International, 23, 397-426.
Ilies, R., Lanaj, K., Pluut, H., & Goh, Z. W. C. (2018). Intrapersonal and interpersonal need fulfillment at work: Differential antecedents and incremental validity in explaining job satisfaction and citizenship behavior. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 108, 151-164.
Hessels J., Rietveld C.A., Thurik A.R. & Zwan P.W. van der (2018), Depression and Entrepreneurial Exit, Academy of Management Perspectives 32(3): 323-339.
Zwan P. van der, Hessels J. & Rietveld C.A. (2018), Self-employment and satisfaction with life, work, and leisure, Journal of Economic Psychology 64: 73-88.
Hessels J., Arampatzi E., Zwan P. van der & Burger M. (2018), Life satisfaction and self-employment in different types of occupations, Applied Economics Letters 25(11): 734-740.

Lin, J., Ilies, R, & Pluut, H., & Pan, S-Y. (2017). You are a helpful co-worker, but do you support your spouse? A resource-based work-family model of helping and support provision. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 138, 45-58.

Curseu, P. L., Meslec, M. N., Pluut, H., & Lucas, G. J. M. (2015). Cognitive synergy in groups and group-to-individual transfer of decision-making competencies. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1375.
Ilies, R., Pluut, H., & Aw, S. S. Y. (2015). Studying employee well-being: Moving forward. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 24, 848-852.
Ilies, R., Aw, S. S. Y., & Pluut, H. (2015). Intraindividual models of employee well-being: What have we learned and where do we go from here? European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 24, 827-838.
Ullrich, J., Pluut, H., & Büttgen, M. (2015). Gender differences in the family-relatedness of relocation decisions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 90, 1-12.
Curseu, P. L., Pluut, H., Boros, S., & Meslec, M. N. (2015). The magic of collective emotional intelligence in learning groups: No guys needed for the spell! British Journal of Psychology, 106, 217-234.

Pluut, H., Flestea, A. M., & Curseu, P. L. (2014). Multiple team membership: A demand or resource for employees? Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 18, 333-348.

Pluut, H., & Curseu, P. L. (2013). Perceptions of intragroup conflict: The effect of coping strategies on conflict transformation and escalation. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 16, 412-425.